SYMBOLIC HEALING AND HARMING
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1 SYMBOLIC HEALING AND HARMING Read: Farmer: Aihwa Ong: Good: Miner Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia American Oncology and the Discourse on Hope Body Ritual Among the Nacirema I. Today we re looking at some familiar cases, and some very strange ones II. Lourdes in France: a familiar (to some of you) example of religious, symbolic healing in the West A. Divine intervention St. Bernadette B. Today 1. The pilgrimage has been going on since The initial vision said nothing about the spring s healing powers 1. Lourdes has over 2 million visitors annually today, including over 30,000 sick 2. As happens with other forms of religious healing, cures validate it, but failures cannot disprove it 3. Pilgrims are the chronically ill who, usually, fail to respond to medical remedies a. Despair, lives severely disrupted b. The decision to travel changes their lives: their families are energized, money is raised, perhaps by an congregation, the preparation and journey are a dramatic break in routine c. Except for the initial cures in the 19 th century, Lourdes has failed to cure those living in its vicinity d. Upon arrival, pilgrims are plunged into a city of pilgrims Symbolic Healing I Farmer, Ong, Good, Miner
2 1) Previous cures are all that is talked about, there is evidence everywhere discarded crutches, etc.; the ritual begins with a validation of the shrine s power 2) Days are filled with trips to the grotto and religious services 3) Group processions can be as large as 40 or 50 thousand, praying for others a) The majority of sick do not experience a cure, but many say they feel better, psychological benefit from the experience b) One gains merit by making the trip: The trip to Lourdes is never made in vain c) Those who help who are not sick gain merit C. Miraculous healings in the Church s view are few: less than 100 they require stringent documentation 1. But there are well-documented cures a. However, inexplicable cures of serious organic disease occur in everyday medical practice. Any physician can provide examples b. Healing takes place as it does elsewhere 1) No one regrows an amputated limb 2) The paralyzed may get up and walk, but weight gain takes place over weeks, any restored skin is scar tissue, etc. 2. A great deal of literature disputes these cures because of an assumption that to accept them means one has to believe what Catholic theology says is happening. D. Parallels with religious healing elsewhere: 1. Such healing involves a coming together of the patient, his/her family, the larger group, and the supernatural world by means of a dramatic, emotionally charged, aesthetically rich ritual that expresses and reinforces a shared ideology 2
3 3 III. Methods of supernatural healing highlight: A. The close interplay of bodily systems and emotional states B. The intimate relation of both to health and illness C. And the parallel between inner disorganization and disturbed relations with one s group (or a disturbed cosmos, etc.) D. And they indicate how a patterned interaction of patient, healer, and group within the framework of a local set of assumptions can promote healing 1. All the articles for today provide illustrations of symbolic harm and healing a. Farmer and Good: no supernatural involved 1) Although Voudoo is mentioned b. Ong and Miner, yes, the supernatural is involved E. These assumptions continue in modern society, although transformed 1. Although if you assume a very outsider position, as Miner does, you will conclude that the Nacirema reveal very strong underlying beliefs about symbolic harm and healing, much of it supernaturally caused, or at least influenced 2. Good s discussion of books by Bernie Siegel and the Simontons about somehow symbolically healing yourself (which, as Siegel points out, may not be curing yourself) 3. Disputed by oncologists, yet they subscribe to a version of symbolic healing as well a. What s the difference? F. These healing systems often co-exist with naturalistic treatment: herbs, manipulations, surgical operations 1. And co-exist with the local version of biomedicine IV. Characteristics of etiology, diagnosis, treatment:
4 4 A. These belief systems tend to assume that illness is a misfortune involving the entire person 1. The consequences have to do with the sick person s relationships with the spirit world and other members of the group a. Illness classifications often bear no resemblance to those of Western medicine 1) And, following Farmer, we shouldn t attempt to pigeonhole them into our nosological system b. In particular, these systems don t distinguish sharply between mental and bodily illness, or between that due to natural and that due to supernatural causes 1) Both natural and supernatural causes can contribute 2. Sicknesses are seen by anthropologists as symbolic expressions of internal conflicts or disturbed relationships to others (or both) a. Soul loss, possession by an evil spirit, magical insertion of a harmful body by a sorcerer, machinations of offended or malicious ancestral ghosts b. Often it s assumed that the patient laid her/himself open to these calamities through some witting or unwitting transgression against the supernatural world 1) Or through incurring the enmity of a sorcerer or other enemy who employed a sorcerer 2) Maybe even a kinsman of the sufferer was the transgressor B. How such illnesses are healed reveals underlying assumptions 1. Oftentimes attempt to correct the disturbance, the dis-order a. Examples in the West? 2. Corrections, restoring order carried out by shamans a. Intermediary between humans and the supernatural
5 5 b. Usually a group is involved in the treatment session, not just the curer and the patient c. The shaman in the Ong article performs public rituals: 1) His curing is restoring order: he makes a place safe again 2) Any parallels with our society? d. Individuals are certainly treated as well, but notice that responsibility falls, to some degree, on the individual 1) The Ong piece: sanitary napkins, urinate on an inhabited site, are not as resistant as others 2) Or didn t eat any breakfast C. Another form: the group healing ritual 1. Might be led by a religious practitioner, but what brings about healing is different the group itself is seen to do it 2. May involve ancestral or other spirits 3. We can find such rituals in many US churches: Charismatic Catholics, for example VI. Symbolic Harming: further discussion A. Walter Cannon wrote a famous article on Voodoo Death 1. He explores the level of the individual as well as the society a. Among some Australian Aborigine cultures if a very powerful curse is directed at someone, h/she may eventually die 2. At the individual level: belief leads to emotional experience leads to effects on the body a. With society playing a role
6 6 b. The final cause (belief in the power of the curse) is irrational but more proximate causes are physiological ones no mystery about why death occurs 3. At the level of society a. Society is organized to communicate to everyone who is a member, who is not, who is alive and who is de facto dead 1) One way to analyze ritual (public ritual) is to see it in terms of members of a culture sending messages to one another about their lives, the meaning of life, what s important, etc. 2) A form of shunning behaving as though the cursed individual is already dead has effects, too; s/he is already socially dead B. Another famous article by Evans-Pritchard explaining Azande witchcraft, sorcery beliefs: Witchcraft explains unfortunate events 1. On Monday I presented 4 kinds of explanations that have been offered to account for irrational beliefs a. This article is a good example of an attempt to find rationality in what appear to be irrational beliefs 1) The system is logical except for its faulty premises b. Anthropology s attempt to render strange, incomprehensible data comprehensible 1) The classic mission of the anthropologist 2) Make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange c. Unfortunate events, examples: 1) Azande granaries are elevated 2) People sit under them in the shade 3) Granaries have a habit of collapsing 4) Sometimes they collapse on people, killing them
7 7 d. Azande understand all of this perfectly well 1) But surely there s an answer to the question, why did this happen to my mother, why does it collapse just at the time she s sitting under it? 3. His study argues that there are both psychological and social functions of such beliefs a. On the individual level: such beliefs reassure people there are reasons for unfortunate events 1) What reassurance of this nature do we provide in the West? b. Societal level? 1) Proposed functions such beliefs serve: a) One kind of function is leveling mechanism: if a man finds three honey-combs in one day, he is accused of witchcraft 1) Such potential accusations, it is argued, militate against a person s overly strong striving for success a leveling function b) Another function might be that conflict is directed to outside the extended family via beliefs that a non-kin enemy is practicing witchcraft 1) This explanation won t work for certain other societies, where who is bewitching you could be your in-laws, or your close blood kin c) d) A postulated function at both the individual and societal level is that accusations absorb latent hostilities (good for individual, good for society) That the beliefs explain the world; societies seem to need such sense-making ideology as well as individuals VI. Discussion of Farmer
8 8 A. Kinds of explanations, from both outsider and insider positions 1. Don t worry about 50-cent words you might not understand trope, comity, emic a. These pieces aren t written for undergraduates b. You can get what the article is about B. What are the possible explanations for rural Haitian women s beliefs in move san? 1. At the level of the population, a functionalist explanation might look at the beliefs as an indirect means of population control a. Neglect, infanticide, etc., seen as functional for the group, even though on the individual level is seen as tragedy or unfortunate necessity 2. At the level of the individual a. Cannon would say the explanation is ignorance b. Farmer is very concerned with this level c. He offers a psychodynamic explanation 1) For example, a symbolic expression of the way infants/pregnancy/nursing forces the mother to sacrifice herself as an individual a) Move san can kill the mother, but not the infant 2) Farmer discusses the hypothesis that it could be illness behavior 3. Level of the culture: how to analyze: a) A form of chronic somatization that is related to strong social pressures...a form of metaphoric retaliation or resistance a. Not to be too narrowly focused on the doctor-patient relationship
9 9 1) In this case, the doctor is pretty marginal in his informants constructions b. A postulated function at the cultural level, like the Azande, is social control 1) These beliefs help keep to a minimum incidence of mistreating pregnant woman because of the serious consequences that can follow c. Farmer says that move san is a public health problem...an illness with a public meaning...a case serves as a stage on which social and psychological problems (mistreatment of pregnant or lactating women, for example) can be aired. d. Interpretive anthropology: 4. Social level 1) Seeks to make sense: of a phenomenon: show connections between the body physical and the body social 2) Other interpretive types of explanation that have been suggested: symbolically represent the potentially negative links between baby and mother a. If move san does occur, beliefs about it can be seen as a way of mobilizing resources 5. But Farmer s concern is with how these levels are integrated in the local explanation a. Milk and blood are barometers of disturbances in the social field.
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